## Lahman package v. 5.0.0 released to CRAN
Team Lahman is pleased to announce that v. 5.0.0 of the Lahamn package
is now
on CRAN. It contains the data from Sean Lahman's Baseball Database,
http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/
as a collection of data frames covering nearly all aspects of baseball
statistics from 1871--2015.
In this release,
* All data sets have been updated with data for the 2015 baseball
season. In
addition, numerous corrections of data errors and inconsistencies
discovered
in previous year tables were applied.
* Documentation examples are now provided for all data tables.
* Documentation examples were re-writtten to make extensive use of
dplyr for data manipulation
and ggplot2 for graphics.
### Development
All development of the package takes place on Github,
https://github.com/cdalzell/Lahman.
Major versions of the R package are released only once a year, following
the release of a
new 20XX archive on Sean Lahman's site. This R release occurs after
sufficient time has
elapsed to correct errors in the source data for a new season. Minor
versions may be
released from time to time to correct errors in the R version or add
functionality.
Please report any problems or issues with this new version as an issue
on this site,
https://github.com/cdalzell/Lahman/issues. Additional contributions are
welcome.
There exists an old pseudo-wiki on R-Forge,
http://lahman.r-forge.r-project.org/ that
collects some additional analyses and visualizations.
-- Team Lahman: Chris Dalzell (maintainer), Michael Friendly (author),
Denis Murphy, Martin Monkman, Sean Lahman
--
Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods
York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
4700 Keele Street Web:http://www.datavis.ca
Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA